http://www.feedbooks.com/list/880 For possible reading Obnoxious librarian from hades Dennie Heye http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2658 en 2008 Satire from a librarian in a large bureaucracy, trying to survive boring meetings, clueless managers, reorganisations, offshored helpdesks and l-users (library users). New - updated version contains 8 months worth of new episodes! New episodes via http://olfh.blogspot.com Humor Satire Office library dilbert bureaucracy librarians http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2658.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2658.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2658.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2658.mobi Rowan of the Wood (Preview) Christine and Ethan Rose http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1998 en 2008 Rowan of the Wood, WINNER of the 2009 Indie Excellence Award for YA Fiction and a Finalist for the 2008 National Best Books Award, tells the story of a young boy Cullen who meanders through the redwood forest every day on his way to school, losing himself in books and fantasy worlds full of elves, fairies, and wizards. He loves to escape to these magical lands because reality for him is not fun at all. Cullen and his two misfit friends, Maddy and April, are terribly unpopular amongst the other kids, and they regularly endure ridicule and bullying. Cullen's life changes incredibly one day when he uncovers an ancient magic wand that is inhabited by a powerful wizard, Rowan. Inadvertently, Cullen releases Rowan from the wand and finds himself possessed by the wizard, with a great power and an obsessive need to find a lost love. When danger is near, Rowan emerges from the frightened child to set things right. He and Cullen try to understand what has happened to them, only to discover a deeper problem. Nearly fourteen centuries ago, Rowan and his bride Fiana were separated on their wedding day. Rowan manages to survive, trapped in time, until Cullen releases him from the wand. Fiana uses dark magic to stay alive as she continues searching for Rowan. Over the centuries, Fiana descends deeper into the darkness becoming something evil and eventually giving up her search...until a young boy brings Rowan back to her. The sequel, WITCH ON THE WATER, is now available on AMAZON and wherever fine books are sold. fantasy fantastique Young Adult YA Teen love Wizard Magic *dark druid Scotland Caledonia California orphan gothic tragic vampire vampires witch dark fantasy http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.mobi The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories John Kessel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections An ex-con finds himself falling, once more, under a seductive, amoral woman's spell. A hidden door in a summer house leads to a land of plenty. An inventor's life converges with the pulp fiction he reads. In "Pride and Prometheus," the Bennett sisters encounter Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. And, in his acclaimed and award-winning Lunar Quartet, Kessel explores the gender dynamics, politics, and long-term sustainability of a matriarchal lunar colony. This astonishing collection ranges from science fiction to the surreal while intersecting with Frank L. Baum's Oz and the characters of Flannery O'Connor, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. By turns satirical, horrific, funny, and generous, these stories showcase the manifold gifts of a modern-day master. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.mobi How To Disappear Completely David Bowick http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3115 en 2009 www.bowick.net/books/ Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Josh’s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his life’s new path, he’ll come to take life advice from a family of ducks, get in a bloody war with a dog, lose his job over a spilled drink, wake up in the hospital, apply to work at an adult-themed novelty bakery, and find out that people often aren’t what they seem. When you're at the top of the world, there's nowhere to go but down. fiction Contemporary comedy David Bowick how to disapear completely http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.mobi The Man Who Could Not Forget Michael Graeme http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2857 en 2008 A Short Story by Michael Graeme (a fifteen minute read): ...I have a problem with my memory. It isn't that it ever fails me - quite the opposite in fact. Indeed, my recall of events from all but the earliest years of my life is truly photographic, so there was little doubt in my mind the woman before me now was the one who had stolen the book.... fantasy fiction romance short story speculative http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.mobi Password Incorrect Nick Name http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi The Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349 urn:isbn:0192822756 en 1768 Non-Fiction Biography In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.mobi The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523 en 1850 Novels Romance Gothic The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores questions of grace, legalism, sin and guilt. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.mobi Tokyo Zero Marc Horne http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501 en 2004 Michael Blake is in Tokyo to help out with the end of the world. Living in the Tokyo of the gangs, the losers and the outsiders, Blake and a cell of Japanese psychopaths plot to unleash a new kind of bio-chemical horror on an unsupecting populace of daydreaming salary-people. science fiction fiction Creative Commons Post-1930 http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.mobi The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/814 urn:isbn:0553212281 en 1843 Short Fiction Horror Gothic "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards. It is unclear what relationship, if any, the old man and his murderer share. It has been suggested that the old man is a father figure or, perhaps, that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret. The ambiguity and lack of details about the two main characters stand in stark contrast to the specific plot details leading up to the murder. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/814.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/814.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/814.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/814.mobi The Call of Cthulhu Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18 urn:isbn:0786926392 en 1926 Short Fiction Horror "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.mobi How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar Bret Harte http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519 en 1872 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.mobi Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lewis Wallace http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540 urn:isbn:1404185712 en 1880 Novels History Religion Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The central character is Judah, prince of the Hebrew house of Hur. Judah grows up in Jerusalem, during the turbulent years around the birth of Christ. His best friend is Messala, a Roman. As adults Judah and Messala become rivals, each hating the other, which leads to Judah's downfall and eventual triumph. Elements of the story include leprosy, naval battles among galleys, the Roman hippodrome, Roman adoption, Magus Balthasar, the Arab sheikh Ilderim. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.mobi Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jerome http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182 urn:isbn:1843911604 en 1886 Essay Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.mobi Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203 urn:isbn:0486255883 en 1889 Novels Humor/Satire http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2203.mobi Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jerome http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2183 urn:isbn:1402199805 en 1898 Essay Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2183.mobi A Kidnapped Santa Claus Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325 urn:isbn:1434899241 en 1904 Short Fiction Fantasy Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. On one side is the mighty Forest of Burzee. At the other side stands the huge mountain that contains the Caves of the Daemons. And between them the Valley lies smiling and peaceful. One would think that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy, would have no enemies on all the earth; and, as a matter of fact, for a long period of time he encountered nothing but love wherever he might go. But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to hate Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children happy. One Christmas Eve, they decided to take action! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.mobi Little Maid Marian Amy Ella Blanchard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Religion The cat and kitten were both eating supper and Marian was watching them. Her own supper of bread and milk she had finished, and had taken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very much for bread and milk, but the cat and kitten did, as was plainly shown by the way they hunched themselves down in front of the tin pan into which Marian had poured their supper. In the next room Grandpa and Grandma Otway were sitting and little bits of their talk came to Marian's ears once in a while when her thoughts ceased to wander in other directions. "If only one could have faith to believe implicitly," Grandma Otway said. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.mobi Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356 urn:isbn:1592240062 en 1915 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text. The book collects fifty-one short stories by the author. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.mobi The Royal Book of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934 urn:isbn:0486417662 en 1921 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Scarecrow decides to search for his family tree and winds up discovering that he is the long-lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Along the way, he meets such colorful characters as the A-B-Sea Serpent, the lumpy mud men, Sir Hokus of Pokes, and others. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.mobi The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045 en 1911 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land. These six stories deal with transformations, the truth of the imagination, and the effect of the unseen on ordinary lives. By juxtaposing the Edwardian English with pagan mythology, E.M. Forster created in this collection a work of lasting strangeness and great beauty. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.mobi The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4040 en 1890 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. The Red Fairy Book is the second in the series. (wikipedia) This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4040.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4040.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4040.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4040.mobi The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4037 en 1889 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. The Blue Fairy Book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories, among other sources. (wikipedia) This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4037.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4037.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4037.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4037.mobi Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4022 en 1872 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4022.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4022.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4022.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4022.mobi The Mathematicians Arthur Feldman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with the finished drawing. "The hero," she said. We did a double take. "Hey! That's not the hero." She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We couldn't, and she left hurriedly to go home and cook dinner for her family. And what were they having? Frog legs—what else? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4002.mobi The Way of the Bow Paulo Coelho http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3873 en 2008 Short Fiction “The Way of the Bow” relates the story of Tetsuya, the best archer of the country, who conveys his teachings to a boy in his village. Using the metaphor of archery the author leads us through several essential thoughts : our daily efforts and work, how to overcome difficulties, steadfastness, and courage to take risky decisions. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3873.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3873.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3873.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3873.mobi Small Stories Small Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2705 en 2008 101 very short stories, some comic, some dark - each one written to provide a quick entertaining read. Great for reading on any mobile device. funny fiction short stories comic stories dark weird comedy surreal nanofiction microfiction absurd strange collections computer games http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.mobi Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Aleksander Chodźko http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997 en 1896 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.mobi A Dreamer's Tales Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352 en 1910 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908). In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.mobi Beasts of New York: A children's book for grown-ups Jon Evans http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976 en 2007 An urban fantasy about the wildlife of New York City, starring a squirrel protagonist who has to find his way from exile in Staten Island back to his home in Central Park. http://www.beastsofnewyork.com/ fantasy animals urban fantasy http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.mobi The Great God Pan Arthur Machen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457 urn:isbn:0486443450 en 1894 Novels Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.mobi Swann's Way Marcel Proust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262 urn:isbn:0142437964 en 1922 Novels In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Swann's Way is the first volume. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.mobi Eating Grass Small Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6451 en 2009 A Twitter novel about love, alienation and extraordinary powers. science fiction Novel sci-fi tweets nanofiction microfiction Story mobile fiction twitter mobile writing twovel http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6451.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6451.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6451.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6451.mobi Uncollected Stories Small Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283 en 2009 The second collection from the popular Feedbooks download author. 50 microfictions - sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, always perfect for mobile reading. funny fiction weird short story surreal microfiction flash fiction very short story mobile reading quirky http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.mobi Nostradormouse Chris Tinniswood http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7258 en 2009 All donations from the sale of the paperback version of this book will benefit The BBC Children in Need Appeal, a company limited by guarantee (charity number 802052 in England & Wales and SC039557 in Scotland). If you download this ebook version, please consider donating online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/donate/ Thank-you! NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE! ISBN: 978-0-9561611-0-9 A young dormouse awakens from a deep sleep and utters a mysterious prophecy. In the centre of The Great Woods, an ancient tree receives some strange visitors. Rumours abound. Change is in the air. This is the age of... NOSTRADORMOUSE. A fantasy tale for all ages, Nostradormouse is the story of a mouse with a gift, and the journey he undertakes for the sake of the world in which he lives. Join Nostradormouse and his friends on this incredible adventure, and witness a legend in the making! fantasy Magic children myth celtic Animal salmon of wisdom anthropomorphic norse mouse dormouse http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7258.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7258.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7258.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7258.mobi Red Riding Hood Naomi Kramer http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7104 en 2009 Rosie dresses as "Little Red Riding Hood, all growed up" for a party at an exclusive adults' club. Roger dresses as the wolf. When they meet... sparks don't exactly fly. This isn't a romance or erotic fiction, but it DOES contain adult themes. Consider yourself warned. :-) remix adult fairytale http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.mobi DEAD(ish) Naomi Kramer http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6965 en 2009 Linda’s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike won’t tell her what he did with her body, and she can’t find the stupid thing herself. There’s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information. mystery murder ghost revenge http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.mobi My Father Said: A Collection of Life Lessons vernon foster http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7098 en 2009 I am the Founder of the Charles P. Foster Foundation this e-Book My Father Said: A Collection of Life Lessons. Carries on my father’s legacy. It is for readers of all ages. Throughout the e-Book, I bring my father’s message to life with stories from my childhood with my father, including photos and interviews with those who knew my father. The Charles P. Foster Foundation assists low income non custodial fathers rebuild their relationship with their children and help at risk youth understand their future through economy viability. I was surprised by the reactions when speaking about my dad and decided as a result to donate a book to the adults and youth he serves. Throughout the e-Book are life lessons from Charles Patrick Foster such as: • “Just because you go down the wrong road in life does not mean you can’t turn around.” • “If you speak the words, mean them. If not, keep your mouth shut.” • “Boy, here (in America) there is a recipe for everything to be successful. Your problem is you don’t want to follow the recipe.” And the stories behind the life lesson from Vernon Foster. “Nearly all of us, at one time or another, has referred to our father’s wit and wisdom to explain life’s complications. Vernon Foster’s Book, My Father Said, is a delightful mix of humorous narratives told with love. There is often real insight in the short pieces, revealed in an amusing cultural manner that draws us in for more. While there is nothing earth shaking in his observations, within the simplicity of reason is an eloquence of thought. As a student of literature, I found the book a fun read, containing more than just a few laughs.” David Fichter For information visit: www.cpffoundation.org. Contact: info@cpffoundation.org Phone: 510.569.4701 Non Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7098.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7098.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7098.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7098.mobi Anthology of Micronesian Tales P.Pedrus http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7130 en 2009 Anthology of Micronesian Tales is a collection of native Micronesian short stories, poems, and a true story based on my family roots. Such literary pieces reflect traditional Micronesian ways. literature http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7130.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7130.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7130.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7130.mobi The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/348 urn:isbn:0812969901 en 1774 Novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and it also influenced the later Romantic literary movement. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/348.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/348.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/348.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/348.mobi Cabbages and Kings O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592 urn:isbn:0559579195 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.mobi The Ant King and Other Stories Benjamin Rosenbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872 urn:isbn:1931520534 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children’s collective goes house hunting. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.mobi Butcher Bird Richard Kadrey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227 urn:isbn:1597800864 en 2005 Novels Horror Fantasy Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he's saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn't fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.mobi Spell of Intrigue Mayer Alan Brenner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1595 en 1990 Novels Fantasy Any interesting scheme will have more than a single motivation. Were they pawns in the power games of gods or players in a no-spells-barred contest between mortals and masters? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1595.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1595.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1595.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1595.mobi The Crock of Gold James Stephens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4142 en 1912 Novels Philosophy Fantasy A truly unique novel, The Crock of Gold is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the neverending battle of the sexes, written with charm, humour and good grace. It achieved enduring popularity, and was frequently reprinted throughout the author's lifetime. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4142.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4142.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4142.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4142.mobi Otto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4141 en 1888 Novels Young Readers Adventure The book centers around the life of Otto, the son of a German warlord. His mother dies when she sees her husband hurt, prompting his father to take his newborn son to a nearby monastery to be raised. When Otto reaches eleven his father returns to claim him from the monastery and take him back to live in their ancestral castle. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4141.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4141.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4141.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4141.mobi Little Fuzzy Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313 urn:isbn:0809562820 en 1962 Novels Science Fiction The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/313.mobi Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12 urn:isbn:0679776443 en 1842 Novels Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.mobi Sanin Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177 urn:isbn:0801485592 en 1907 Novels The hero of Artsybashev's novel exhibits a set of new values to be contrasted with the morality of the older Russian intelligentsia. Sanin is an attractive, clever, powerful, life-loving man who is, at the same time, an amoral and carnal animal, bored both by politics and by religion. During the novel he lusts after his own sister, but defends her when she is betrayed by an arrogant officer; he deflowers an innocent-but-willing virgin; and encourages a Jewish friend to end his self-doubts by committing suicide. Sanin's extreme individualism greatly appealed to young people in Russia during the twilight years of the Romanov regime. "Saninism" was marked by sensualism, self-gratification, and self-destruction--and gained in credibility in an atmosphere of moral and spiritual despondency. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.mobi Metrophage Richard Kadrey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810 urn:isbn:0441528139 en 1988 Novels Science Fiction Welcome to Los Angeles... where anger, hunger, and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival, until a strange new plague turns L.A. into a city of death--and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1810.mobi Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4146 en 1921 Novels Humor/Satire Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley. It was published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at "Crome" (a lightly veiled reference to Garsington Manor, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write). We hear the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. Our hero, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4146.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4146.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4146.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4146.mobi Kai Lung's Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906 en 1922 Novels Fantasy Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the forty-fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April, 1972. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. In Kai Lung's Golden Hours he is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien on treasonable charges by the Mandarin's confidential agent Ming-shu. In a unique defense, Kai Lung recites his beguiling tales to the Mandarin, successfully postponing his conviction time after time until he is finally set free. In the process he attains the love and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.mobi The Golden Ass Lucius Apuleius http://www.feedbooks.com/book/591 urn:isbn:0374505322 en 160 Novels Humor/Satire The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/591.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/591.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/591.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/591.mobi The Railway Children Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4150 en 1906 Novels Young Readers The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4150.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4150.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4150.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4150.mobi Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151 en 1885 Novels Young Readers In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. With the deaths of his father's elder brothers, Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.mobi Tales of Old Japan Lord Redesdale http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726 urn:isbn:0804833214 en 1871 Short Fiction History Collections Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book, which was written in 1871, is still regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.mobi The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471 urn:isbn:0300137400 en 2008 Non-Fiction Essay In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation. Boyle identifies as a major problem the widespread failure to understand the importance of the public domain—the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee. The public domain is as vital to innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights, he asserts, and he calls for a movement akin to the environmental movement to preserve it. With a clear analysis of issues ranging from Jefferson’s philosophy of innovation to musical sampling, synthetic biology and Internet file sharing, this timely book brings a positive new perspective to important cultural and legal debates. If we continue to enclose the “commons of the mind,” Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.mobi I Open It Bernadette Erikka Vanburen http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7425 en 2009 Quick Fiction. fiction short quick http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7425.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7425.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7425.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7425.mobi Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260 urn:isbn:0765312808 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city’s dumpsters. But Alan’s past won’t leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/260.mobi Half a Person Joshua Hale Fialkov http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7465 en 2009 Steve Albertson awakens one morning with a mysterious illness that one by one robs him of his senses. With only his long suffering wife keeping him sane, the end is fast approaching. If you've enjoyed this book, please post a review either here or over on Amazon.com to say thank you! Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Harvey Award Nominated creator of the graphic novels <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034549511X/104-5419658-6907102?ie=UTF8&tag=joshuahalefia-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=034549511X">Elk's Run</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tumor-Chapter-1/dp/B002J256D8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252510554&sr=1-1">Tumor</a>, as well as co-creator of <a href="http://www.punksthecomic.com">Punks the Comic</a>. He has worked on comics for Marvel, DC, Top Cow, and Dark Horse Comics. He was also the Executive Producer of lg15:the resistance, and a co-writer of the Emmy-Award Nominated Afro Samurai: Resurrection. Much of his catalog is available in local comic book shops or on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&x=0&ref_=nb_ss_gw&y=0&field-keywords=joshua%20fialkov&url=search-alias%3Daps">Amazon</a>. His first novel should appear in 2010. science fiction fiction love marriage romance short story fialkov illness disease senses joshua hale http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7465.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7465.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7465.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7465.mobi Maida's Little Shop Inez Haynes Irwin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3694 urn:isbn:8132029399 en 1909 Novels Young Readers This is the tale of Maida Westabrook, the motherless daughter of Jerome "Buffalo" Westabrook, Wall Street tycoon. Although Maida has had everything that money can buy and the devotion of her father, she has also known trouble and heartache. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3694.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3694.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3694.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3694.mobi Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche http://www.feedbooks.com/book/676 urn:isbn:1604593210 en 1886 Non-Fiction Philosophy Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/676.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/676.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/676.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/676.mobi The Code of Hammurabi Hammurabi http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4239 en -1790 Non-Fiction History Politics The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4239.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4239.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4239.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4239.mobi Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172 en 1881 Collections Religion This is an 1881 compilation of Thomas Bulfinch's previous writings: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855); The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur (1858); and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.mobi The Black wolf and other stories IrethSeregon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7597 en 2009 I love writing fantasy and have been inspired by many movies. This is an anthology from ghosts to the sidhe and animals. Enjoy! Magic animals elf ghost dragons nymphs wildlife http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7597.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7597.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7597.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7597.mobi YOU CAN WE CAN MICHAEL EICHENBERG http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7595 en 2009 A short inspirational that just might change the way think and feel about things. You Can We Can is a grass roots movement that will instantly transform your way of thinking and living. Political non-fiction Self-Help inspirational http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7595.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7595.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7595.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7595.mobi Continuation CD Clement http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7603 en 2009 So I died, and to be totally honest with you it was a lot more painful than I had expected. A hell of a lot more painful. But then again I am fairly sure that you are not supposed to remember the actual death part, if you know what I mean. No, you don't, do you? You're aware of Life Extension Technologies Inc.? No? Okay, I think I had better explain a little,. Actually, I had better go back to the very beginning. science fiction short story speculative fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7603.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7603.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7603.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7603.mobi False North Bernadette Erikka Vanburen http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627 en 2009 Experimental, narrative short story. short experimental Story narrative http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.mobi Rashoumon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4254 en 1915 Short Fiction Philosophy Psychology "Rashōmon" (Japanese: 羅生門) is a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. A man considering whether or not to become a thief meets a woman stealing hair from corpses. Their conversation explores the morality of theft. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa movie Rashōmon, which was based on Akutagawa's 1921 short story, In a Grove. (source: Wikipedia) Note: The original Japanese version of Rashoumon is available on Feedbooks at http://feedbooks.com/book/3923 This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4254.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4254.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4254.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4254.mobi The Golden Sayings of Epictetus Epictetus http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282 en 1903 Philosophy Selections from the writings of the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus, compiled and translated by Hastings Crossley. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.mobi Cthul-You Damien G. Walter http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7655 en 2009 When I first heard about Cthul-YOU I was skeptical to say the least. Like most people I thought anything that promised so much had to be bogus. Like the sites for BDSM fanboys populated by 24,753 lonely I.T. technicians seeking submissive female slaves, and…NO submissive females waiting to be enslaved. I was glad that kind of thing wasn’t really my scene, but then being a follower of the occult wasn’t any easier. So when the e-mail that would ultimately lead me to my dark lord and master appeared in my Inbox, you can be sure I had my reservations. horror Lovecraft urban fantasy Cthulhu Cthul-You Contemporary Fantasy Dark Fantas http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7655.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7655.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7655.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7655.mobi Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #30 Silver Age Books http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7819 en 2009 The issue opens with "Citadel Ninety-Nine" by Michael Canfield, in which a bloodthirsty army tears its way across a strange, strange world. Also in this issue… John Greenwood plots the next point in Newton Braddell's weary journey. Jon Vagg shows what really goes on at conventions in "DeadSoulsCon". K.J. Hays tells the story of "The Zombie Who Went to Town in Style". K.J. Hannah Greenberg writes about creatures in mailboxes in "Just One Case of Flash: Another Chimera Story". And Ben Thomas & Skadi meic Beorh win this issue's best title award with "The Periodic Honking of the Fruit-Seller's Truck". The issue ends with our usual bountiful selection of reviews, including comment on all of this year's British Fantasy Award-nominated novels, two books from Rhys Hughes, and a collection by Steve Redwood. fantasy magazine SF horror tqf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7819.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7819.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7819.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7819.mobi Dreaming Lies to Change the Truth Kaolin Fire http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7817 en 2008 [620 words] She wove lies of leaves and fruit as she crawled about the tree; it had rotted and split, but her webbing held it whole. She wove eight-faceted apples that glistened like negative prisms, sucking in all heat and life. fantasy Spider short fiction Eve tree of knowledge http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7817.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7817.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7817.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7817.mobi Forever In Time Charlie http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7906 en 2009 If Stephanie Fields was asked to describe herself, she’d say she was ordinary, calm and cautious. Her quiet life was exactly as she wanted it to be, or so she thought, until a mysterious stranger entered her shop. He had a knack for drawing her out of herself, for pushing her buttons, for making her feel... But now, just when life was getting interesting, someone was stalking her. Excerpt: She was in there, he knew it. He’d followed her that morning as she left her house, keeping a discreet distance, doing nothing that could alert her or anyone else of his intentions... Time was on his side. He could wait. Wait until his target appeared... “I’m waiting for you Stephanie,” he whispered as she exited the grocery store and put her purchases into her sensible grey car. “I’ve been waiting a very, very long time.” romance suspense paranormal http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.mobi Out From Edom: Book I of the Irredente Chronicles J. Patrick Sutton http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8002 en 2009 Lengthy sci-fi novel now available in full. Humanity in its “renormalized” form following an epoch of profligate genetic bioforming has sheltered itself in a theocratic hegemony along one arm of a barred-spiral galaxy. In seeking to protect its genome from further tampering and regulate technology, it has become complacent and ossified. The Irredente Chronicles series traces the lives of characters affected in various ways by humanity’s desperate attempt to cling to a recognizably human self. When an unknown enemy begins wiping out hegemony worlds, the Irredente must rise to the threat or else face destruction. Is there a way to halt the march of science and technology without becoming vulnerable in a universe that embraces it? Over the course of 3 novels and 2000 pages, as the rescued urchin Henryk and the reactionary priest Hersey voyage separately across the hegemony and beyond, the dark secrets at the heart of the Irredente will be exposed, and Henryk and Hersey will lead humanity from complacent parochialism to an embrace of the multiversal computation. Book I is 188,000 words -- 500+ paperback pages. More information at www.jpatricksutton.com Novel SciFi SF religious fiction religious science fiction science fiction novel sci-fi novel sci fi novel scifi novel http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8002.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8002.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8002.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8002.mobi Ravaging Myths Frederick Marshall Brown http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7959 en 2009 FREE first in series novel that neatly fits in the sci fi / fantasy / horror/ mystery/ suspense /alternate history genre. A small town doctor in the Shawnee Nation is severely injured and briefly dies in an Internation highway pileup. When the doctor is brought back, he recovers and returns to work but has residual seizures and paranoia. The doctor and his immigrant town are then increasingly plagued by the presence of a menacing dark figure, and the figure appears to contribute to a number of deaths in the town. science fiction fantasy Novel SciFi mystery horror Series http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7959.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7959.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7959.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7959.mobi The Skull Philip K. Dick http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4335 en 1952 Short Fiction Science Fiction Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4335.mobi Stranger among Strangers Hans Marius Andresen http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8039 en 2005 Ever wondered what it might be like being trapped in a place where you couldn't escape and couldn't blend in? A strange place where you would be a stranger to everyone, and everyone would be a stranger to you? This is a story of a situation like that... along with war, politics, romance and weird dreams. fantasy http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8039.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8039.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8039.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8039.mobi The Snow-Image Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4383 en 1864 Short Fiction Young Readers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4383.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4383.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4383.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4383.mobi John Whopper, The Newsboy Thomas M. Clark http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4398 en 1870 Novels Young Readers Fantasy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4398.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4398.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4398.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4398.mobi Waste Not, Want Dave Dryfoos http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4386 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Eat your spinach, little man! It's good for you. Stuff yourself with it. Be a good little consumer, or the cops will get you.... For such is the law of supply and demand! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4386.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4386.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4386.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4386.mobi After Dark Bryan L. Lee http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8344 en 2009 What would happen if the neighborhood vigilante just happened to be a werewolf? Find out After Dark. thriller fiction Scary short story horror short fiction supernatural werewolf park http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8344.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8344.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8344.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8344.mobi Cassingle: Five Stories Jim Hanas http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8248 en 2009 A follow-up to 2006's Single, Cassingle is a collection of stories that originally appeared in Fence, McSweeney's, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories. Creative Commons short stories flash fiction short fiction literary fiction literary journals mcsweeneys twelve stories fence http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.mobi The Foreign Hand Tie Randall Garrett http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4429 en 1961 Short Fiction Science Fiction Just because you can "see" something doesn't mean you understand it—and that can mean that even perfect telepathy isn't perfect communication.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4429.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4429.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4429.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4429.mobi Christmas Stories for Molly and Julia Henry Davis http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8290 en 2009 These twelve stories are a compilation of stories Henry Davis wrote Christmas Eve and read on Christmas morning to his nieces, Molly and Julia, every Christmas. Written over more than 12 years as the girls grew up, the stories were written to reflect the characteristics of that particular year. Since they were written on Christmas Eve, each one reflects a different inspiration for that year books stories Christmas Christmas s books, children childrens http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8290.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8290.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8290.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8290.mobi Going Under Alwyne Ashweth http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8435 en 2009 Take for granted, the London Underground delves deeply underneath this ancient city. The forgotten past of countless humans lies there, waiting to be discovered. And discarded deities prowl the tunnels, searching for those who would serve them. www.strangecircle.org.uk underground horror London tube http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8435.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8435.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8435.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8435.mobi Clash of the Sissies Graham Parke http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8427 en 2009 What do you do when an old friend becomes famous? Alex has some weird ideas about this. "It's often difficult to remember how or why you became friends with someone, especially if you’ve been friends with a person forever. But because of the very specific set of circumstances, I remember exactly how Barend and I became friends. This, of course, was long before he became famous for inventing the easy-foldable map, and infamous for the series of bodies he'd decided to bury in his backyard." 'Clash of the Sissies' is a micro novel dealing with topics no self-respecting micro novel should ever have to deal with. www.nohopeforgomez.com Humor comedy short fiction collections vonnegut Humor/Satire http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8427.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8427.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8427.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8427.mobi What It Means Small Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8210 en 2009 A teenager tries to keep it together in a messed up world. Written completely on Twitter - this Twitter novel contains adult themes and language. fiction short stories drugs short story short fiction twitter novel pills http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8210.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8210.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8210.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8210.mobi Corvus L. Lee Lowe http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6822 en 2009 In a slightly alternate world the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can enter the virtual Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part odyssey, part tragedy, part riff on the nature of consciousness. Corvus is currently being serialised online in weekly instalments, a chapter each Friday. Further information and podcasts (audiobook) are available at <a> http://www.lleelowe.com</a> Serialisation will last for 48 weeks. Too long for you? A paperback edition of the novel will soon be available. science fiction fantasy Young Adult YA Novel teen fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6822.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6822.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6822.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6822.mobi